Wahby hosts fundraisers for returning vets

Macomb County Treasurer Ted Wahby is hosting three spaghetti dinners over the next week to benefit local veterans groups and to focus attention on the needs of veterans who’ve returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and are struggling to find jobs and stay out of poverty.

The meals will benefit the Macomb County Veterans Food Bank, a veterans employment assistance program, Operation Christmas for overseas veterans families, and the Hospitalized Veterans Committee. Each dinner site will feature a display of the Vietnam Veterans Traveling Memorial which consists of a replica of “the wall” in Washington with the names of Michigan soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.

For a $5 per person donation, each meal will provide spaghetti, salad, rolls, soft drinks and dessert.